The Captains of Energy : Systems Dynamics from an Energy Perspective / by Vincent C. Prantil, Timothy Decker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gessler, Paul, Author.

Decker, Timothy, Author.

Prantil, Vincent., Author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, 1939-523X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering design.

Materials.

Professional education.

Vocational education.

Engineering Design.

Materials Engineering.

Professional and Vocational Education.

Local Subjects:

Engineering Design.

Materials Engineering.

Professional and Vocational Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Summary:

In teaching an introduction to transport or systems dynamics modeling at the undergraduate level, it is possible to lose pedagogical traction in a sea of abstract mathematics. What the mathematical modeling of time-dependent system behavior offers is a venue in which students can be taught that physical analogies exist between what they likely perceive as distinct areas of study in the physical sciences. We introduce a storyline whose characters are superheroes that store and dissipate energy in dynamic systems. Introducing students to the overarching conservation laws helps develop the analogy that ties the different disciplines together under a common umbrella of system energy. In this book, we use the superhero cast to present the effort-flow analogy and its relationship to the conservation principles of mass, momentum, energy, and electrical charge. We use a superhero movie script common to mechanical, electrical, fluid, and thermal engineering systems to illustrate how to apply the analogy to arrive at governing differential equations describing the systems' behavior in time. Ultimately, we show how only two types of differential equation, and therefore, two types of system response are possible. This novel approach of storytelling and a movie script is used to help make the mathematics of lumped system modeling more approachable for students. Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / If You Push It, It Will Flow / Governing Dynamics / The Electrical Cast / The Mechanical Cast / A Common Notion / Going Nowhere? / The Fluid and Thermal Casts / Summary / Afterword / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

If You Push It, It Will Flow

Governing Dynamics

The Electrical Cast

The Mechanical Cast

A Common Notion

Going Nowhere?

The Fluid and Thermal Casts

Summary

Afterword

Bibliography

Authors' Biographies .

ISBN:

9783031793660

3031793668